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Go for Plan A, Christie

[W]here I used to think that before I got really old I’d get me a gun so I could shoot myself, I now wonder if I won’t instead turn the weapon on some officious hospital executive, wanker bureaucrat or brute of a nurse.

Far-right eliminationism is evidently seeping north. Develop innovative ways of delivering healthcare to Canadians? Fund the system so it works? Address foul-ups with an ombudsman or public complaints system with teeth?

Naw, much better just to shoot someone. Welcome to Harper’s Canada, 2011.